1、演練III想一想Be sure that you have never had any regrets in your life which only lasts for a few decades. Laugh or cry as you like, and it is meaningless to oppress yourself.人生短短幾十年，不要給自己留下了什么遺憾，想笑就笑，想哭就哭，該愛(ài)的時(shí)候就去愛(ài)，無(wú)謂壓抑自己。做一做單選：1. We thought of selling this old furniture, but weve decided to _ it. It migh

2、t be valuable. A. hold on to B. keep up with C. turn to D. look after2. The hotel will be the highest building in the city when _.A. being completed B. it will be completed C. to completed D. completed 3. - Did you remember to give Mary the money you owed her? - Yes. I gave it to her _ I saw her.A.

3、while B. the moment C. suddenly D. once4. Of all _ reasons for decision to become a university professor, my fathers advice was _ most important one. A. the; a B. /; a C. /; the D. the; the5. The computer system _ suddenly while he was searching for information on the Internet. A. broke down B. brok

4、e out C. broke up D. broke in6. I hear _ boys in your school like playing football in their spare time, though others prefer basketball. A. quite a lot B. quite a few C. quite a bit D. quite a little7. He was about halfway through his meal _ a familiar voice came to his ears.A. why B. where C. when

5、D. while 8. I was told that there were about 50 foreign students _ Chinese in the school, most _ were from Germany. A. study; of whom B. study; of them C. studying; of them D. studying; of whom9. - These books are too heavy for me to carry. - _.A. You may ask for help B. I will give you a handC. Ill

6、 do you a favor D. Id come to help10. The father as well as his three children _ skating on the frozen river every Sunday afternoon in winter. A. is going B. go C. goes D. are going完形In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic （技工）. One day while walking alon

7、g the bank of a lake, the girl  11  to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl   12   the mother would not return to her eggs and she   13  to take them home. There she carefully   14  the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Seve

8、ral days later, the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the   15  .Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother.   16 , to these young geese, the girl was their mother. As they grew, the girl was able to   17  her birds to r

9、un across the grass, but she could not teach them to   18  . The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when   19   and in her dreams. Later, she had an idea: She would pilot a plane to guide them in   20  . She asked her father for a plan

10、e and he assembled（組裝）a small aircraft for her. Caring about her safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not   21  or follow him, and   22   slept in the grass. One day, the girl   23  into the plane, started it

11、and soon left the ground. Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds   24  flapped（拍打）their wings and   25  . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following. 11Amanaged         Battempted   

12、;   Chappened     Dsupposed12Arealized           Bexpected         Cimagined     Dadmitted13Ahelped      

13、      Bdecided        Cafforded      Dmeant14Aplaced            Bprotected      Ctreated   

14、0;  Dexamined15Afamily            Blake                Chome         Dworld16ABut    

15、          BAlso            CThus           DStill17Aask             &#

16、160;Blead            Cwant           Dallow18Afly              Brace        

17、;     Cswim          Dsing19Aasleep           Baway             Caround     

18、0;   Dawake20Asky              Bheaven          Cflight          Dplane21Arespect     

19、0;   Bremember    Crecognize   Dreceive22Aso               Binstead            Chardly     

20、;    Dtoo23Aclimbed         Blooked        Creached   Dfell24Asecretly           Bdisappointedly Cpatiently  &

21、#160;   Deagerly25Alooked away      Bset out        Cwent by       Dturned back閱讀理解One-hundred-and-eleven-year-old Japanese engineer Tomoji Tanabe was awarded official recognition

22、Monday as the world's newest oldest man by the Guinness Book of World Records(GBWR).A 111-year-old Japanese engineer born at the end of the century before last was awarded official recognition Monday as the world's newest oldest man, and joked he was sorry for still being alive.Tomoji Tanabe

23、, a teetotaller who has repeatedly said that avoiding alcohol was a secret of his longevity, was given a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records by the mayor of his local municipality.Tanabe, from Miyazaki prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, was born on September 18, 1895 - befo

24、re Japan became a world player, Australia became independent or the Wright Brothers created the first plane."It is nothing special," he said, adding tongue-in-cheek, "I have lived too long. I am sorry."With the recognition, Japan boasts having both the world's oldest man and

25、the oldest woman - Yone Minagawa, 114, who also lives in Kyushu.To look after himself, Tanabe mainly eats vegetables and few greasy dishes, a Miyakonojo city official said.He became the oldest male after his predecessor, Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico, died at the age of 115 on January 24.

26、Since then, the Guinness Book of World Records has investigated who should take the title as the oldest man on Earth and contacted Miyakonojo authorities earlier this month to verify Tanabe's birthdate.More than 28,000 Japanese are at least 100 years old, most of them women, according to the gov

27、ernment.The Japanese people's renowned longevity is often attributed to eating the country's traditional healthy food, despite the hectic lifestyle many lead in the big cities.But the longevity is also presenting a headache as the country has very low birthrate, spelling a future demographic

28、 crisis as a smaller pool of workers supports a mass of elderly.True or False1.The Japanese man is the oldest man on earth. ( )2. Avoiding alcohol is the secret of his longevity. ( )3. The worlds oldest man and woman are both in Japan now. ( )4. In Japan ,there are more women living longer than men.

29、 ( )5. The Japanese government is happy to this fact that more and more peole live longer.( )讀一讀： I have a dream節(jié)選Martin Luther King, Jr. 簡(jiǎn)介：馬丁路德金(公元19291968年)，美國(guó)黑人律師，著名黑人民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)領(lǐng)袖。一生曾三次被捕，三次被行刺，1964年獲諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)。1968年4月4日他在田納西州被暗殺。他被譽(yù)為近百年來(lái)八大最具有說(shuō)服力的演說(shuō)家之一。1963年他領(lǐng)導(dǎo)25萬(wàn)人向華盛頓進(jìn)軍“大游行”，為黑人爭(zhēng)取自由平等和就業(yè)。他率領(lǐng)一支龐大的游行隊(duì)伍向首都華

30、盛頓進(jìn)軍，為全美國(guó)的黑人爭(zhēng)取人權(quán)。他在林肯紀(jì)念堂前向25萬(wàn)人發(fā)表了這個(gè)著名的演說(shuō)我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想，為反對(duì)種族歧視、爭(zhēng)取平等發(fā)出呼號(hào)。 I say to you today, my friends so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rotted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the

31、 true meaning of its creed:" We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. " I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owner will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.I have a

32、 dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judge

33、d by the color of their skin but by the content of their character; I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and mollification , one day right there in Alabama little black b

34、oys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers; I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted , every hill and mountain shall be made low, and rough places will be made plane and crooked place will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we